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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frank most want to see at the cinema?
(a) A James Cagney movie.
(b) A science fiction thriller.
(c) An old American western.
(d) A Disney cartoon.

2. Why is Frank afraid to go home in Chapter 6?
(a) His mother has consumption.
(b) He has learned that his parents know he skipped school.
(c) There will be no food at home.
(d) His father found out he went to the cinema.

3. Why does Angela slide into a deep depression?
(a) She is depressed because Margaret died.
(b) She is miserable because she misses Ireland.
(c) She is depressed because Malachy is an alcoholic.
(d) She is sad because Malachy cannot hold down a job.

4. Why is Frank ashamed of Angela at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) She is drunk.
(b) She had disappeared overnight.
(c) Her dress is ripped.
(d) She is begging for charity at churches.

5. What is wrong with Paddy's father in Chapter 6?
(a) He has consumption.
(b) He has pneumonia.
(c) He works too many hours.
(d) He has left Paddy's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Frank so understanding when his father is telling Oliver stories about Cuchulain?

2. What does Malachy look like when he arrives home from England in Chapter 12?

3. Why do the McCourt children laugh at Aunt Agnes while they are staying with her in Chapter 10?

4. When told there is no work in Ireland, Malachy decides to go to Dublin. Why?

5. What kind of lessons does Angela decide Frank must take?

(see the answer key)

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